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Woods still needs to solve major puzzle

Veteran Jim Furyk is a better bet for the US PGA than the American

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IGER WOODS is fast turning into golf’s biggest puzzle. With the US PGA Championship teeing off at Kiawah Island on Thursday, nobody knows which version will turn up in South Carolina.

Will it be the Woods who played so miserably for all four rounds at The Masters in April, finishing 15 shots behind Bubba Watson and then insisting, despite the evidence of his own eyes, that he was “so close” to hitting top form? Will it be the man who led after two rounds of the US Open, only to collapse when the chips were down?

Will it be the golfer who arrived at Royal Lytham for The Open, armed with a gameplan from which he refused to deviate, even when it obviously wasn’t working?

Or will it be the Woods who, unburdened by the pressure that comes with trying to land a major, has so far won three times